Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 Ep. 4 'An Obol for Charon ' Review

My review for episode 4 of season 2 of 'Star Trek: Discovery'.

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[Section]

"Excuse me, why does God need a starship?" LOL

[RaquelsFoodDiary]

Sonequa’s acting is annoyingly “extra” this episode.

[d.a.b]

Get rid of the burnham show element would help so much

[bgjoekrash]

I like Discovery it's newness is getting the a standard disapproval that most trekkies give new trek shows. I don't care about that. This is good science fiction.

[geraldherrmann]

episode 4 shocked me most, so far. it was permanently way too loud, too much, too fast, too over the top (for star trek). give them other clothes, rename them, call it "stellar quest" and everything is ok. but THIS is NOT trek. plus: the whole series´ technics is way too far developed. this should take place a century after voyager, not pre-tos.

[h.godftw]

Yeah, episode 3 was worse than Spock’s brain... 😒 right, i got serious faith issues in your credibility as a rational trek fan. Also did you just tell us to watch a film to see Rebecca do a striptease...? Riiiight... prescriptive analysis in overdrive here.

[emrem.]

Is there any episode where Michael is not crying or in tears.????

[RohanPascall]

Is it possible to make a Star trek TV show with Christopher Pike and the the crew. That would be great! Of course with other writers and producers.

[Meretneith]

For me personally the only reason this episode is an improvement is because of the 5 minutes in which Pike and Nr. One talked in the mess hall. They have good chemistry and I felt the desire to rather watch THEIR adventures.

[jannibanani]

I watched TNG, DS9 and Voyager. I would describe me as half a Trekkie and I have to say this episode was actually really good in my opinion. I felt like I am watching Star Trek again.
STD is really special. I understand that they had to get away from the episodic to be successful and to get the younger generation excited about Star Trek. This is clearly a deviation from the usual Star Trek, but from my point of view it is necessary to be able to finance yourself. However, they overdo it with the mediocre Cliffhangers in the first season. This episode was so surprising for me, because it was a typical startrek ( unknown object/being influences the ship and the crew ). Individual crew members are separated from the main action line and have to solve their own problems before they can rush to the crew's aid. The well-known Startrek values also reappear and a diplomatic path is taken instead of a warlike solution). The universal translator idea was simply good. There is an answer why the spore drive (this "courageous" and non-physical drive technology can of course be argued about) was no longer used in the Star Trek universe. The characters get much more depth in this episode. Especially Saru and Burnham and their relationship to each other. They managed to boost Saru to a credible and acceptable captain level. Discovery has many flaws, but with this episode, they have made up for many mistakes.
Unfortunately, the series is still a bit too quickly told to me.


I can imagine that this comment will annoy many people here. But come on, this episode was far from bad. I am ready to discuss, if somebody will make factual criticism to my commentary

[JDODify]

I’ve been really enjoying this series of Discovery. But then I enjoyed the first season too.

[vincehickey]

Why is Sonequa’s overacting dialled up to 15 out of 5 this episode? Mickey-Spock solves ALL the problems AGAIN. What a surprise. My favourite part was when Tilly died at the end 😀

[Safram]

During last few episodes I have seen evidence of changing the Discovery slowly to more traditional Star Trek genre. I've been waiting for the reason to purge spore drive and something like this was expected. However, since the technology 'exists', there would always be someone who does not care about entities living in the spore network. Some minor changes also indicates, that the surroundings will change towards traditional Star Trek. Pike's decision to change holograms to viewscreens, orange panels on messhall walls, number one's uniform (which is very different compared to other uniforms). Also in earlier episode, the klingons started to have hair and resemble a bit more Klingon of the TNG series. Now, these changes cannot be done over few episodes.

It is also obvious that at least first episodes of season 2 have tried to fix the mess, which first season have created. There is such a huge mess, that this will go on for at least halfway of the season 2. They are really trying to fix things as fast as possible. Unfortunately this leads to scripts with multiple storylines, bouncing storytelling, and huge plot holes. Also irritating method of characters explaining things to plug plot holes happens. It seems like they are trying to fast forward prewritten storyline to get out of the murky waters. This is very frustrating and causes a lot of Picard facepalms while watching the episodes.

I am most irritated of the amount of drama on the Discovery. It's almost like watching the bold and beautiful. Everything must be over dramatic to the point of explaining daily events with almost whispering voice. Michael must cry all the time to the point of dehydration (which explains the lack of tears). I do know that working in female dominant workplace may be more dramatic surrounding. But are they this bad? A heterosexual human male seems to be a very small minority on the crew (excluding aliens), supposing captain Pike likes the ladies. Are women the targeted audience for the series?
I am also irritated by the overwhelming resourcefulness of the characters. Huge challenges are resolved within minutes, like communicating with Tilly's alien friend by drilling a hole in her head with a normal drill and plugging an antenna in to enhance the link between a thingy and the alien. Even the way the head drilling was done was irritating. Head unsupported, drill unsupported and no painkillers whatsoever. The drill went thru the skull within seconds without causing much pain or damage to Tilly. Or transferring 100 000 years of detailed data within seconds to unlimited memory of the Discovery from an alien, which they could not communicate with few minutes earlier. And the data was conveniently stored in dictionary format for easier browsing (Facepalms). And yet, simple logical reasoning is way too challenging for the crew at times.

I would say, there's still some future potential to this series. I am trying hard to watch all episodes in hope of production to regain control on this falling plane before crash landing. I predict things will get better by the end of season 2, but it might be too late.

[britneypage]

If you dislike the show so much, why not just stop watching? 🤷🏾‍♀

[toonmili]

Why does he have to mention the Orville every episode. Geez. We came to watch a star trek review. That's what your title said.

[jameswg]

Season one I could watch your reviews no problem the was balance in your reviews

Season 2 nope your reviews have been mostly poor. That's my opinion just like your opinion is of the show but the is little balance anymore

[buffsheeri]

counting words now....isn't that being really picky?

[TheJlook]

it reminded me of star trek the motion picture.a bit . Is burnham a demi-god ? she seems to know everything . I think Martin-Green should turn down the over-acting a bit

[andrewh.k.]

Stop watching the show if you hate it so much. Take a breath, you blogger.

[MidnightWanderer]

Again...sensing a tad bit of bias opinion of this series. And this episode was slightly better than you are giving credit for...